Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap

From: Alice Ryhl
Date: Fri Dec 13 2024 - 09:43:11 EST


On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM Konstantin Ryabitsev
<konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 11:47:41AM +0100, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > When I sent this series, b4 put the changelog stub for v12 above the
> > cover letter for some reason. Also, I'm not sure why the list of
> > recipients were included in the cover letter. Any ideas what I'm doing
> > wrong?
>
> Yes, and it's a common gotcha that I don't know how to properly address. For
> the moment, we use "---" lines to indicate the main sections of the cover
> letter. There are three main sections:
>
> The main message
>
> ---
>
> Additional information
>
> ---
>
> The basement
>
> Looks like you removed the "---" between the changelog and the main message,
> which causes b4 to stop properly parsing the cover letter.
>
> I'm open to suggestions on how to make this less fragile, short of "use AI to
> figure out what part of the cover letter does what."

Could you print an error if the --- is missing, that is, if the number
of sections is incorrect?

Alice